People lose their lives to psychological and emotional abuse.
I almost did.
This kind of abuse isn’t just about hurt feelings. It distorts your reality, destroys your self trust and esteem, traps your body in chronic survival and can wear you down mentally, physically and spiritually until you collapse.
And then the ones who harmed you will point at your collapse as evidence you are the problem.
People need to stop talking about these relationships like they are just difficult or “toxic.” For many, they are life threatening.
people don’t really understand what evil is until they’ve been victimized by a malignant narcissist.
Because what people think is evil, what normal compassionate people perceive as evil is not nearly as bad as what evil really looks like. They are so much worse than most people are prepared to believe and ironically, that’s how they get away with most of their abuse
@bluewmist You spend so much time being the hero because you know how it feels to be left alone. It is a lonely way to live, always hoping for a return on a love that feels one-way. You deserve to be the one who is taken care of too. Your heart is not a bottomless well.
My therapist told me:
“When a person grows up feeling unseen, they learn to love by over-giving. They pour into everyone else, hoping that, one day, someone will finally pour back into them. So they become the care taker. The fixer. The one who shows up, even when no one shows up for them.”
And the hardest part? Deep down, they're not trying to be strong. They're just waiting for someone to do for them what they've spent their whole life doing for everyone else.
Millennials aren't breaking down at 50 — they're burning out at 30. Why? Because Boomers sold a story that no longer works. Millennials were told:
"Go to college. Follow your passion. Success will follow." Instead, they inherited a rigged system.
Student debt has tripled since 2000. Housing prices are up 150% in just two decades. Entry-level jobs now demand 3+ years of experience, while wages barely moved since the 1990s. The result is brutal. Millennials became the most educated generation in history, yet also the most anxious, overworked, and underpaid. One in four has no savings. 62% live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half say they feel burned out all the time. Gen Z watched this collapse in real time. That's why 70% prioritize mental health over money, and college enrollment is down 15% since 2010. Gen Z isn't lazy. They're adapting to a system that failed the generation before them.